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Sympathy For Heathcliff In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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While Lockwood narrates the story, he introduces the readers to Heathcliff, the villain protagonist. Heathcliff is a tragic anti-hero of Wuthering Heights that he is in some ways an archetypal Gothic character. He is a dark, mysterious, and violent character whose circumstances have turned him to a villain character. These circumstances may lead the reader to have sympathy with Heathcliff. Bronte expresses how Heathcliff arrives at Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw as “a dirty, ragged, black-haired child”(24). He has a hard childhood because of Hindley’s jealousy. Hindley’s bad treatment of Heathcliff forces Mr. Earnshaw to send him away to school. After Mr. Erarnshaw’s death, Hindley uses his power and authority to destroy Heathcliff and

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